I have personally seen large groups of over-educated people skunked by some guy with little education but more real world experience and a little imagination.
You're probably alive only due to one particular mistake in a lab.
Why? Is he shaking down anyone for money or credit for a lame idea he had 30 years ago that someone else did a much better job with?
Does he actively campaign against "doing stuff for free" even when that loss leader activity might actually get him more work in the future or improve his standing with fans?
This is how you end up with an OS that's not a haven for malware.
That said: the system should be configured sanely by default. It doesn't have to be locked down to an absurd level. Separating priveleges doesn't require that.
It sounds like Suse needs saner defaults. Although the defaults could have started out just fine.
> The biggest problems with Linux are still device support and compatibility with what the user wants to do.
Nonsense.
The main problems are some notable highly proprietary walled garden holdouts and the dregs of the PC platform. For the rest, the level of support in Linux is not nearly as bad as some trolls would have you believe.
Linux faces similar challenges to MacOS in this regard.
...or you could buy yourself a nice farm in Amish country.
There is no video distribution format that is without DRM. Even VHS had it's own variant. You're either stripping the DRM, dealing with an inferior experience, or doing without entirely.
Even cable is going to subject you to a DRM framework that requires legitimate decoders to "bend over and say ahh" for Hollywood.
It's more of a "support' thing with that program. The studios are finding new ways of perverting the DVD and BD formats. You can't just pirate the ripper once and call it quits.
In other words: Paramount has been reaming us for years for a highly inferior product. Now that they "finally got it right this time", they expect people to fork over more money yet again.
Too many people are willing to tolerate their BS thus helping to support the absurd prices they try to charge for their stuff.
Why don't you? Clearly this possibility is not quite so feasible as you would like to pretend. Otherwise you would have been able to trivially and quickly offer up a suitable app or even several of them.
"not sure what you mean"
Quite often the user communities that arise around Apple products are as limited as the products themselves.
...except the transistor radio is actually an example of a portable multimedia device. Torah scrolls are not.
All of the associated commentaries are a lot bulkier and rather unwieldy compared to any device that gives you access to all of them either due to sufficient local storage or by some form of "networking".
An entire Gutenberg CD including several "bibles" can fit on the slack space present on any mobile media device.
Moshe's new tablet can even let him argue about the finer points with any other scholar on the planet.
This is all a part of the Republican party groupthink that Santorum represents and much of the resistance against Romney represents. First and foremost, people should be contemplating whether or not they want these guys to be President. Any notions of "beating the other guy" should be entirely secondary.
Republican voters should be willing to tell the party STFU and so should individual Republican politicians. The current GOP expectations regarding "party discipline" seem rather Communist.
Got some nutbags in the party? Then by all means "throw them under the bus".
Amazon is the first mover here. What they will or won't do in the future willy likely be determined by the fact that they are a company that has a focus on Books and eBooks.
They do their own thing. They don't need to be an Apple wannabe.
Why would that not be presented to you as the first thing you see in the interface? Why would any sanely designed device make you search for such a thing?
Such a "search" might be meaningful once and then not so much for ever after.
> But if you don't want to take your eyes off the screen a small touchscreen is superior to physical tactile buttons.
You're joking right?
If you don't want to take your eyes off the screen (or the road), then you need something that can be manipulated by touch. A touchscreen just isn't going to cut it for that. There is ZERO tactile feedback and ZERO potential for developing muscle memory.
You need to focus on it instead of whatever else you might want/need to concentrate on.
If you need to search for "every program ever made by man" then the company that you bought your device from simply did it wrong. Once again, you seem to be pushing a solution that's primarily fixing it's own lack of design and poor execution.
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I have personally seen large groups of over-educated people skunked by some guy with little education but more real world experience and a little imagination.
You're probably alive only due to one particular mistake in a lab.
Why? Is he shaking down anyone for money or credit for a lame idea he had 30 years ago that someone else did a much better job with?
Does he actively campaign against "doing stuff for free" even when that loss leader activity might actually get him more work in the future or improve his standing with fans?
I'm having trouble seeing the parallel there.
Ubuntu does it too.
So does any other Unix that uses some form of sudo.
Basic system security.
This is how you end up with an OS that's not a haven for malware.
That said: the system should be configured sanely by default. It doesn't have to be locked down to an absurd level. Separating priveleges doesn't require that.
It sounds like Suse needs saner defaults. Although the defaults could have started out just fine.
Having a new printer configured for only a single user is a pretty stupid idea actually. That's bound to annoy everyone else that uses that machine.
> The biggest problems with Linux are still device support and compatibility with what the user wants to do.
Nonsense.
The main problems are some notable highly proprietary walled garden holdouts and the dregs of the PC platform. For the rest, the level of support in Linux is not nearly as bad as some trolls would have you believe.
Linux faces similar challenges to MacOS in this regard.
I sounds all good until you get the demand letter from Paramount.
Are you 3? Your post sounds like the simpleminded drivel that a 3 year old would come up with.
If it can be copied, it will be copied. There has never been any time when people didn't copy stuff.
Yet despite of all the whining, "harmed" industries continue to thrive for decades.
...or you could buy yourself a nice farm in Amish country.
There is no video distribution format that is without DRM. Even VHS had it's own variant. You're either stripping the DRM, dealing with an inferior experience, or doing without entirely.
Even cable is going to subject you to a DRM framework that requires legitimate decoders to "bend over and say ahh" for Hollywood.
It's more of a "support' thing with that program. The studios are finding new ways of perverting the DVD and BD formats. You can't just pirate the ripper once and call it quits.
Except this isn't a "school child". This is a prodigy that's being heavily recruited by Cal Tech.
In other words: Paramount has been reaming us for years for a highly inferior product. Now that they "finally got it right this time", they expect people to fork over more money yet again.
Too many people are willing to tolerate their BS thus helping to support the absurd prices they try to charge for their stuff.
Why don't you? Clearly this possibility is not quite so feasible as you would like to pretend. Otherwise you would have been able to trivially and quickly offer up a suitable app or even several of them.
"not sure what you mean"
Quite often the user communities that arise around Apple products are as limited as the products themselves.
I can do this for Android.
I can do this for Amazon.
Why do I have to "buy the whole cow" before I even know whether or not I am lactose intolerant?
Your cult mentality allows for mediocrity to be not merely tolerated but actively encouraged.
...except the transistor radio is actually an example of a portable multimedia device. Torah scrolls are not.
All of the associated commentaries are a lot bulkier and rather unwieldy compared to any device that gives you access to all of them either due to sufficient local storage or by some form of "networking".
An entire Gutenberg CD including several "bibles" can fit on the slack space present on any mobile media device.
Moshe's new tablet can even let him argue about the finer points with any other scholar on the planet.
This is all a part of the Republican party groupthink that Santorum represents and much of the resistance against Romney represents. First and foremost, people should be contemplating whether or not they want these guys to be President. Any notions of "beating the other guy" should be entirely secondary.
Republican voters should be willing to tell the party STFU and so should individual Republican politicians. The current GOP expectations regarding "party discipline" seem rather Communist.
Got some nutbags in the party? Then by all means "throw them under the bus".
Apple is taking over the world up until the point someone mentions anti-trust. Then suddenly Apple is not taking over the world anymore.
> That's odd, because you can go to the App Store
> and find plenty of alternate email clients, diallers,
> SMS clients
So where's the one that allows me to clean up ALL my SMS messages with a single button like Android does?
You mean like the iPad?
It's funny how people try to spin things.
Amazon is the first mover here. What they will or won't do in the future willy likely be determined by the fact that they are a company that has a focus on Books and eBooks.
They do their own thing. They don't need to be an Apple wannabe.
> "Siri, giants football"
You mean Live Sports? and "your team"?
Why would that not be presented to you as the first thing you see in the interface? Why would any sanely designed device make you search for such a thing?
Such a "search" might be meaningful once and then not so much for ever after.
It can be quite helpful to mention the obvious when people seem hell bent on ignoring it for no good reason.
The whole thing seems like a rather silly question for a platform that already has a very mature automated installer.
An academic background in CIS can be very handy for dealing with "Admin problems". Having something resembling a clue helps in any field or endeavor.
It helps to be more than just a trained monkey.
> But if you don't want to take your eyes off the screen a small touchscreen is superior to physical tactile buttons.
You're joking right?
If you don't want to take your eyes off the screen (or the road), then you need something that can be manipulated by touch. A touchscreen just isn't going to cut it for that. There is ZERO tactile feedback and ZERO potential for developing muscle memory.
You need to focus on it instead of whatever else you might want/need to concentrate on.
Your concept of the future has already failed.
If you need to search for "every program ever made by man" then the company that you bought your device from simply did it wrong. Once again, you seem to be pushing a solution that's primarily fixing it's own lack of design and poor execution.